. The one I knew the best of all : a memory of the mind of a child . idowedgentlemen coulcl not afford the corps of servantswhich would have been necessary to keep themin order. In the centre of the Square was a Lamp write it with capital letters because it was notan ordinary lamp post. It was a very big one,and had a solid base of stone, which all thechildren thought had been put there for a or five little girls could sit on it, and four orfive little girls usually did when the day was fine. Ah ! the things which were talked over underthe Lamp Post, the secrets that were whis
. The one I knew the best of all : a memory of the mind of a child . idowedgentlemen coulcl not afford the corps of servantswhich would have been necessary to keep themin order. In the centre of the Square was a Lamp write it with capital letters because it was notan ordinary lamp post. It was a very big one,and had a solid base of stone, which all thechildren thought had been put there for a or five little girls could sit on it, and four orfive little girls usually did when the day was fine. Ah ! the things which were talked over underthe Lamp Post, the secrets that were whispered,and the wrongs that were discussed ! In the win-ter, when the gas was lighted at four oclock,there could be no more delightfully secluded spotfor friendly conversation than the stone base ofthe lamp which cast its yellow light from above. Was it worldly pride and haughtiness of spiritwhich gave rise, in the little girls who lived inthe Square, to a sense of exclusiveness whichcaused them to resent an outside little girls en- 72 The One I Knew the Best of All. •,
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